Lost my House

[Melichoir]

Well the "extra rooms" I mentioned would function just like FC houses do with having that door that lets you select where to go. They would serve the purpose of an "outdoor" area for gardening and a "workshop" like FC houses have access to. But as I said if that's too much of an ask, SE could simply make new interior housing objects that allow access to those features (crossbreeding and airships/sub missions).

The primary issue I think many people have with apartments aside from size/item count, is that they are still locked out of certain features which are only available if you have an actual house. Simply addressing that, and perhaps offering larger apartment sizes and a higher furnishing count would probably stem much of the calls for more housing I think.

And that might be the more feasible option. Keep the current system in place, and improve the APT system to have tiers size wise. Housing would still be better by virtue of pricepoint and location, but APTs will give you a reasonable option. For example, what if you could have essentially a cottage sized apt: 200 Item space, up and down stairs, same size as a cottage, and a small outside area where you can place 10 outdoor items (like a balcony kind of deal) and it costs you 2 Mil in Gil. You get almost all the perks of a small house, and its cheaper. It's instanced so anyone can get one so long as they got the cash, there isnt competition for location cause thats a non issue, and it leaves the wards and neighborhood intact and wouldnt require restructuring the servers as housing interiors are already instanced so its just a matter of swapping out the location. This would be, in my estimate atleast, a good compromise and solve a ton of the issues presented.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

And that might be the more feasible option. Keep the current system in place, and improve the APT system to have tiers size wise. Housing would still be better by virtue of pricepoint and location, but APTs will give you a reasonable option. For example, what if you could have essentially a cottage sized apt: 200 Item space, up and down stairs, same size as a cottage, and a small outside area where you can place 10 outdoor items (like a balcony kind of deal) and it costs you 2 Mil in Gil. You get almost all the perks of a small house, and its cheaper. It's instanced so anyone can get one so long as they got the cash, there isnt competition for location cause thats a non issue, and it leaves the wards and neighborhood intact and wouldnt require restructuring the servers as housing interiors are already instanced so its just a matter of swapping out the location. This would be, in my estimate atleast, a good compromise and solve a ton of the issues presented.

Yea just improving apartments would probably quell the bulk of housing complaints.

Even without different tiers of apartments (though I don't see why that would be an issue), just increasing the item count allowed in an apartment to at least equivalent to a small house, adding an "indoor hydroponics planter" furnishing, with even just 4 plots for seeds (like the Round Garden Patch furnishing for yards), and an "indoor airship/submarine remote access terminal" furnishing to let players access those features in an apartment would go a long way towards addressing the complaints of players looking for housing.